Say what you will about the Twilight series, but you can’t fault it for being inconsistent.

The popular vampire franchise’s final installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, scored the eighth biggest opening weekend of all time with a $141.3 million debut. If Summit’s estimates hold up, that’s just a touch ahead of Breaking Dawn – Part 1, which started with $138.1 million last year, and just a touch behind New Moon, which opened with $142.8 million in 2009.

Impressively, Breaking Dawn – Part 2 also earned $199.6 million in its international debut this weekend, giving it an…

Cross off another director from the line-up of all-stars who’ve been eyed to helm the next Star Wars movie. Brad Bird — who, along with Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, was approached by Lucasfilm to direct the next chapter in the behemoth franchise — tweeted four simple wordsSaturday that no doubt rocked his nearly 50k followers: “Not doing Star Wars.”

Bird (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol) went on to tweet that “Michael Arndt is a fantastic writer and Kathy Kennedy is a brilliant producer. I will be first in line to see the new STAR WARS.”

Well, so far we know a lot about…

I know nothing of this book series, and I have no idea whether this is going to be any good. I saw someone somewhere online say that it is the missing link between Buffy and Twilight, and I think that is a good description.

There’s certainly no lack for films and books centered around the paranormal, and as much as I have enjoyed a little bit of it, I’m ready to move on.

I did catch a glimpse of Mrs. Fredrick from Warehouse 13 though, so that was at least a little bit of fun.

Synopsis:

Clary Fray tumbles into the supernatural world when she visits a club called Pandemonium, and…

2012 has been a terrific year for superheroes at the movies.

May brought us Marvel’s The Avengers, in all its hilarious, exciting, Hulk-smashing glory. July gave us The Dark Knight Rises, the final chapter in Chris Nolan’s epic trilogy, and the biggest, boldest Batman film of them all. Both of these cinematic behemoths garnered critical acclaim, with good reason. But there’s another piece of comic book filmmaking that deserves applause, and that is The Amazing Spider-Man.

Does it reach the same mind-boggling heights as Batman and The Avengers? Not quite. Does it live up to its title? Oh…

Tonight’s episode of Revolution is looking pretty good. I’m sure the fact that it has Led Zeppelin music will mean something to some folks, probably folks older than me and with far different tastes in music.

I’m looking forward to the Matheson/Monroe showdown myself. Should be good!

I must admit I really toyed with the idea of titling this review “Skyfail”, but that would be low hanging fruit, not to mention it would not completely reflect my opinion of this film.

Let me help you see where I am coming from. I have determined that I am somewhat immune to movie hype. Not completely, not even mostly, but immune enough. I can wade through the hype and figure out whether I think a film is going to be any good or not. Sometimes I am wrong, but more often I am right.

Two of the things with Skyfall that I was very aware of were 1). The hype surrounding this film had…

Huh. This could be interesting. It certainly has a couple of cast members that make me want to see it: Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson.

Also, a film that’s not reboot, prequel, or sequel? Get out! Who would have thought? Those seem to be getting hard to come by.

Here’s some info about the film:

The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic ATLAS (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech magic shows, first astonishing audiences by robbing a bank on another continent, and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions…

I saw Skyfall last night, and after breaking it down, I can come to only one conclusion: this is the Bond film in which it is revealed that James Bond is a Time Lord.

Bear with me here.

In high school, my friends and I had a pet theory that James Bond wasn’t one man, but many. “James Bond” was a secret agent “work name” that was assigned to someone new whenever the old agent bearing the name was retired. (Dead or alive.) This theory is nothing revolutionary—I’ve come across a number of people over the years who came up with a similar idea to retcon some sense of continuity to a series…

The film is based on the classic 1982 Japan Saga by comic book writer Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller. Directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova, this story will be much darker and grittier than the previous X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie.

Synopsis:

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that…